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Discover how to quickly and easily add the latest version of this powerful new tool to your article writing and marketing arsenal.

Our new EzineArticles WordPress Plugin has been well-received by our members as a great way to easily submit new and existing blog posts as articles directly from the WordPress interface. The version we initially rolled out on March 25th triggered a flurry of comments and suggestions which led to numerous upgrades, modifications and bug fixes.

The latest incarnation of the plugin is getting rave reviews from members. The installation and operation are both relatively simple … with the operative word being “relatively” … depending on your level of experience with WordPress.

2010-04-26: Due to common issues the plugin has been updated to version 2.0

Installing the EzineArticles WordPress Plugin:

Log in to your WordPress interface

Click on “Plugins” in the left navigation bar.

Click on “Add New”

Enter “EzineArticles” in the Search field

Look for “EzineArticles WordPress Plugin”

On the far right, click “Install”

In the new window that opens, click on the orange “Install” button in the upper-right corner

Activating the EzineArticles WordPress Plugin:

On the next screen, click on “Activate Plugin”

A small EzineArticles menu item will appear in the left navigation menu.

Click on “Options” under the EzineArticles Menu

You’ll need to get your unique EzineArticles API key. To do that, click on the “click here” text link right under the text entry field. (removed for v2.0 and higher)

Fill out the form for generating an API key by entering your EzineArticles username and password.(removed for v2.0 and higher)

Click on “Submit”.(removed for v2.0 and higher)

You will receive an email from EzineArticles containing your unique API key(removed for v2.0 and higher)

Copy your EzineArticles API alpha-numeric key from the email(removed for v2.0 and higher)

Go back to your WordPress interface and paste your API key and enter your EzineArticles username and password. (edited for v2.0 and higher)

Click “Save Settings”

Submitting a WordPress Post as an Article to EzineArticles:

Write a blog post as you normally would, or use an existing post

Once you have your post ready, check the box within the WP EzineArticles menu in the upper-right corner

Fill in and verify all items within this menu.

Click the “Validate” button before you submit your article – this checks your post to see if it meets the submission requirements of EzineArticles before you actually submit it.

If something does not comply with the EzineArticles submission guidelines, you will see a little yellow bar at the top of the page describing what needs to be fixed.

Remember, EzineArticles does not accept images in your article. If you have an image in your blog post, you will need to remove the image, submit your post to EzineArticles, then put your image back into your blog post.

Once everything looks good, you can either click “Publish” which will publish your post to your blog, or you can click “Submit” which will submit your post to EzineArticles.com. If you want to do both, click on both buttons.

When you’re sure everything’s working properly, take your new software for a test drive by submitting your next set of high-quality, original articles directly from WordPress. It’ll be a great way to learn the ins-and-outs of the interface.

Remember, this software is still fairly young, so please contact Member Support if you encounter any challenges with the installation or operation of the plugin.

And leave a comment with any suggestions you may have for added features or improvements.

EzineArticles accepts original content that is 100% exclusive and original to YOUR NAME, but we will accept articles from you that you also have on your own website before or after you submit them to us.

As for your duplicate content question… As long as you don’t syndicate or distribute 100% of your content, your risks of any perceived duplicate content worries will be very minimized.

I have never seen anything so terribly complicated. I am smiling as I write this! What is a Blogpost? Would it not be as quick to copy it to Word and edit it and then submit it in the normal manner? Sorry, but I did not understand the various steps at all. Am I really missing something important? Or does anyone else find this mesmerising?

That was my question too Brian. It will be considered duplicate content unless the title and at least the first two paragraphs are changed…if you are worried about SEO, you may get penalized :( – Mirna Bard

I’ve been waiting for something like this when it comes to article writing. Much easier to get exposure for sure. How will this play out with content being submitted both on a website blog and on EzineArticles.com? Who will be the winner when it comes to the search engines? Duplication issues?

Thanks a bunch for this tutorial. I was looking at this plug in earlier, but being a non-techie didn’t want to get my feet wet.
So, first of all thanks so much for making my life better, I installed this on one of my blogs & will try it today.

Brian, thanks for asking the question on the duplicate content, something I had in my mind.

Chris, could you please clarify this a bit more,

“As for your duplicate content question… As long as you don’t syndicate or distribute 100% of your content, your risks of any perceived duplicate content worries will be very minimized.”

What do you mean by “syndicate or distribute” ?
Is it bookmarking own articles on different book marking sites? and/or publishing on other article submission site without any changes?

If you’re worried about duplicate content, here’s an idea: Only submit a percentage of your blog posts to EzineArticles.

ie: No one is saying that you have to submit 100% of your blog posts to EzineArticles.

What percentage you submit to EzineArticles might be 10%, 15% all the way up to 50%+ of your total articles available on your website. Always your choice.

In fact, as much as we’d like to see you submit 100% of your blog posts to us, the reality is that many people don’t blog the same quality level in terms of word count or quality of blog entry as they do article submissions to EzineArticles right now.

That means we only expected to see a portion of your total blog posts submitted to us as articles that would most likely meet or exceed our minimum editorial standards.

This will be a great time-saver. Not only can we now do everything from one interface, it will help streamline the posting tasks, such as consistently assigning the keywords for the EzineArticles articles used from the WordPress posts. All with the end goal of getting ranked for your article/post keywords.

I installed the plugin on my blog and it worked fine for my first post.

I then installed it on one of my other blogs and it installed OK. I then set up an alt author and a resource box. When I went to post it picked up the new pen name but when I selected it it did not pick up the pen names resource box. It would only show the box for my first (main) pen name.

I then altered manually the resource box via the plugin.

When I went to validate it would not validate either good or bad.

One Point: does one need a different API key for each blog one as got. If so this makes it a bit cumbersome as it would mean I would have to sign up with a different e-mail address for each subject and corresponding blog.

I get this error when I try to activate:
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or ‘}’ in /home/.sites/112/site7/web/blog/wp-content/plugins/ezinearticles-wordpress-plugin/inc/eaRemote.class.inc.php on line 6

I apologize if this is a duplicate entry but I too have successfully installed the plug in, activated it, got my API and saved settings.

I tried repurposing an old article, but when I hit validate, nothing happened. When I hit submit nothing happened. I also checked the special dashboard for EzineArticles and the article I tried to submit doesn’t show up in the dashboard.

From other comments on this page, I guess I am not the only one so I await your recommendation on how to fix.

Thanks for creating this plug in.

I also noticed that there is access to edit the resource box which is helpful if you are commenting on a newspaper article or another article on the web that you want to reference in your article. Being able to add it to the resource box for each article published is an excellent feature.

Hi Chris,
Thanks for the response.
I tried downloading the plugin several times. I also saved it to my computer and tried uploading it into WP. I get the same error both ways. The blog I’m trying to put it on is a Frugal Theme and I have several other plugins installed on this blog without problems.

It installed it on another Frugal Theme blog I have without problems. The third site I installed it on has a generic WP theme.

I’ve written the Frugal Theme developer to see if he has any suggestions from the Frugal end.

This is a corporate blog that has many original postings written by my brother (Z. Christopher Mercer). We have put a number of them on EzineArticles already and I would really like to automate the process if possible.

I installed the plug in to my blog and everything seemed to work out fine, the only thing is that I went and updated my resource box and author names… and that hasn’t translated to wordpress. The new boxes and names do not show up as an option for me to pick from. How can I get my resources boxes and author names to be available?